Tag: Food
Calvin Trillin on ‘The Best Texas BBQ in the World’
by Michael Yessis | 11.18.08 | 11:32 AM ET
When Texas Monthly named Snow’s, a relatively unknown barbecue joint in Lexington, Texas, the best in the state, many people were surprised. Among them: Trillin. The New Yorker’s food guy writes: “I felt like a People subscriber who had picked up the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ issue and discovered that the sexiest man alive was Sheldon Ludnick, an insurance adjuster from Terre Haute, Indiana, with Clooney as the runner-up.”
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Yahoo! BuzzWill Barack Obama Bring Buzz to the Hawaiian Plate Lunch?
by Joanna Kakissis | 11.13.08 | 1:31 AM ET
It could happen. The President-elect, born and raised in Hawaii, grew up loving the cheap, carbo-rich traditional Hawaiian lunch of white rice, macaroni salad and some kind of pan-Asian protein—kalua pork is a favorite.
The Quichua Cacao Farmers Behind Kallari Chocolate
by Joanna Kakissis | 11.12.08 | 9:33 AM ET
The $5.95 bars of rich, smooth Kallari artisan chocolate sold at Whole Foods come from an island on the Napo River in Ecuador’s rain forest. The Quichua people have been farming cacao for generations and then selling it, but now they’ve cut out the middleman and are making and marketing the chocolate themselves. The New York Times reports that they may be the only cacao farmers in the world who make and market their own chocolate.
Is Maui the Next Haven for Foodie Tourists?
by Joanna Kakissis | 11.10.08 | 10:00 AM ET
Wouldn’t you love to eat a feast of hand-harvested vegetables and fruit, served with fish and tofu, amid the kaleidoscopic colors of Hawaii? Maui farmers and restaurateurs have partnered to power a locally sourced cuisine that intrigued E magazine’s Lori Shinn.
Seoul’s Fish Market: One of the ‘Greatest Food Spectacles on Earth’
by Joanna Kakissis | 10.31.08 | 10:32 AM ET
So says Pulitzer-Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold, who recently visited Noryangjin Marine Products Market and reveled in the roughly 700 stalls hawking fresh seafood. Think “croaker and corvina, bubbling clams and great octopus whose arms extend farther than Shaquille O’Neal’s,” Gold writes in Gourmet, or “bottom-of-the-sea stuff whose uses are difficult to contemplate.” Like the pink sea squirts who resemble “throbbing uncircumcised phalluses”? Hmmm. I wonder what kind of Korean breakfast you can make out of that.
Kenya to Obama Tourists: Bring it on!
by Rolf Potts | 10.29.08 | 4:17 PM ET
The Financial Times reports on plans in Nairobi and elsewhere in Kenya to welcome travelers interested in “the Obama experience.” My favorite part of the story: East African Breweries brews a beer called Senator. So, says one bartender, “People now say ‘I want an Obama’ when asking for Senator.”
Eat Like Shackleton in London
by Eva Holland | 10.27.08 | 1:40 PM ET
A restaurant in London is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nimrod Expedition, Ernest Shackleton’s first effort to reach the South Pole, with a 6000-calorie meal fit for an Antarctic explorer. Here’s what’s on the menu:
‘The Asian Food Lovers’ Guide to L.A.’
by Michael Yessis | 10.27.08 | 7:10 AM ET
The cover story of the latest Los Angeles Magazine takes a thorough look at the Asian food scene my home city. Alas, only the noodles section is online.
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Site to Watch: Table Matters
by Michael Yessis | 10.22.08 | 4:07 PM ET
Table Matters is “about the intersection of food, drink, and culture from people who dream about lunch during breakfast, dinner during lunch, cocktails during work, dessert during dinner, and breakfast before bedtime.”
Caesar Salad: Born in Tijuana, but Avoided by Tourists
by Joanna Kakissis | 10.22.08 | 3:03 PM ET
In 1924, an Italian immigrant running a restaurant in Tijuana threw together a last-minute salad for some friends. Caesar Cardini’s creation—the ingredients included lettuce, garlic and bread chunks—went international, gracing the menus of restaurants around the world. But tourists who fear digestive distress caused by Mexican water won’t order the iconic salad at Caesar’s restaurant, which Julia Child loved and is still open today.
From Rogue’s Gallery to Foodie Haven
by Joanna Kakissis | 10.22.08 | 12:05 PM ET
Hardwick, Vermont used to be one of those forgotten small towns where you were far more likely to find cheap beer and bar fights than artisan cheeses. But since the mid-1970s, Vermont has nurtured its sustainable food culture into one of the most enviable in the country, Gourmet reports. Hardwick is a capital, of sorts.
The Linkery: ‘The Nation’s Only Anti-Tipping Laboratory’
by Michael Yessis | 10.13.08 | 10:17 AM ET
A San Diego restaurant embraces a no-tipping policy, provoking an examination of why we tip, what tipping means to workers and diners, and why European and American restaurants don’t see eye-to-eye on the issue.
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The Artisanal Food Movement Finds Ireland
by Joanna Kakissis | 10.10.08 | 10:59 AM ET
Irish cuisine has a long, long way to go before the country’s chefs start petitioning UNESCO to declare the meat, potato and butter-based dishes a national treasure. But when Gourmet’s Colman Andrews visited the southeastern county of Waterford, he discovered an astonishing array of homemade delicacies at the local farmer’s market.
The Hummus War: Lebanon Takes on Israel
by Joanna Kakissis | 10.10.08 | 10:47 AM ET
Fadi Abboud of the Lebanese Industrialists Association says the popular chickpea dip as well as dishes such as falafel, baba ghannouj and tabbouleh belong to Lebanon, not Israel. So his organization is planning to sue the Israelis for food copyright infringement, modeling their case after Greece’s successful branding of feta cheese. Will it work?
How to Love Herring in Sweden
by Lola Akinmade | 10.09.08 | 10:50 AM ET
Bee Colonies Thrive in Paris. Really, That’s a Good Thing.
by Valerie Conners | 10.03.08 | 12:33 PM ET
A French program to promote beekeeping in cities has yielded at least 300 bee colonies in Paris, some in the unlikeliest of places—like the roofs of hotels and the Paris Opera House.
New Travel Book: ‘Indian Takeaway: One Man’s Attempt to Cook His Way Home’
by Eva Holland | 10.03.08 | 11:00 AM ET
In Indian Takeaway, author Hardeep Singh Kohli takes a foodie tour of the subcontinent, reflecting on the experience of being a British Indian while eating his way through countless local households and, bizarrely, rewarding his Indian hosts with some home-cooked British classics of his own—think toad in the hole and bangers and mash.
The Best (Almost) Fictional British Pubs
by Michael Yessis | 09.30.08 | 2:41 PM ET
Among David Barnett’s picks for great fictional pubs: George Orwell’s The Moon Under Water and Anthony Burgess’ Korova Milk Bar, from A Clockwork Orange. Though they’re products of the authors’ imaginations, it looks like they’re so good they’ve both spawned real-world pubs. In his Guardian piece, Barnett mentions a series of British pubs named The Moon Under Water. I found another in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Save the British Pub Sign
by Michael Yessis | 09.30.08 | 10:57 AM ET
Hand-painted markers outside British pubs date to Roman times. Now they’re threatened, mostly by corporate consolidation of pubs. “Only the 30 independent pub chains and breweries in Britain are still ordering individually painted signs,” writes Vanessa Thorpe.
It’s a shame.
The signs, preservationists rightly argue, are full of artistic value and symbolism. See for yourself at Flickr’s cluster of British pub signs.
Feasting in Lyon
by Jeffrey Tayler | 09.30.08 | 9:08 AM ET
Jeffrey Tayler feared he would never feel as intoxicated with the sense of discovery as he once did. But something clicked when he set foot in France's third-largest city.